Re: [PATCH v3] Add TAINT_HARDWARE_UNSUPPORTED flag

[Don Zickus]

On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 04:30:47AM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> I don't think it's a flag that would ever be used in mainline, and 
> Alan's suggestion to just keep a range of taint flags as vendor-specific 
> would avoid the risk of collisions in future. But there's a minor 
> incentive to maintain standardisation over these things in order to 
> encourage commonality of report code.

Exactly.  This was why we posted this upstream to see if there were other
distros interested in a mechanism like this.

Cheers,
Don
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